by Leo Cullum, New Yorker Cartoon
“Invention has its own algorithm: genius, obsession, serendipity, and epiphany in some unknowable combination. How can you put that in a bottle?”
Malcolm Gladwell, in the “IN THE AIR: Who says big ideas are rare?” , New Yorker (May 12, 2008)
‘Performers at Sea’, sculpture by Yiorgos Mavridis. Photo by me. Paros, August 2013
“So much desire must create a reality.”
“These things have an unreal reality, like mermaids, difficult to hold. They exist, but the uses of language fail, because their substance is thinner and finer than words.”
“Such was life in the age of happiness”
Freya Stark in ‘Ionia: A Quest“
(with a sunset over Parikia bay, Paros)
“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.”
(Thanx Kosta for sharing this quote! I had to post it too..)
“It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.”
verses from the poem “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower” by William Carlos Williams
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
Vladimir Nabokov
“The poet’s mind toils between substance and the void.
Every detail in high and low relief he seeks to perfect, so
that the form, although it may transcend the dictates of
compasses and ruler, shall be the paragon of resemblance to all
shapes and features imitated.”Lu Chi’s Wen Fu
The Art of Writing
“In order to assume culture we must assume collectivity. Yet usually we assume collectivity on the basis of culture.”
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in “Death of a Discipline”
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didin’t really do it, they just saw something. It seems obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.”
Steve Jobs
“Nature has no outline, but Imagination has.”
William Blake
escape from a bankrupt state 